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Arkansas Granny

(31,516 posts) Sun Jun 24, 2018, 10:29 AM Jun 2018

This Huffpo article from last year is worth reading again.

I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People
Our disagreement is not merely political, but a fundamental divide on what it means to live in a society.

Like many Americans, I’m having politics fatigue. Or, to be more specific, arguing-about-politics fatigue.

I haven’t run out of salient points or evidence for my political perspective, but there is a particular stumbling block I keep running into when trying to reach across the proverbial aisle and have those “difficult conversations” so smugly suggested by think piece after think piece:

I don’t know how to explain to someone why they should care about other people

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59519811e4b0f078efd98440/amp?__twitter_impression=true

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This Huffpo article from last year is worth reading again. (Original Post) Arkansas Granny Jun 2018 OP

Excellent piece. Ohiogal Jun 2018 #1

I feel the same way as the author NY_20th Jun 2018 #2

Ohiogal

(31,992 posts)

1. Excellent piece.

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Sun Jun 24, 2018, 10:45 AM

Jun 2018

How do you teach compassion? Seems to be an awful lot of selfishness going around lately.

NY_20th

(1,028 posts)

2. I feel the same way as the author

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Sun Jun 24, 2018, 10:49 AM

Jun 2018

I can’t debate someone into caring about what happens to their fellow human beings. The fact that such detached cruelty is so normalized in a certain party’s political discourse is at once infuriating and terrifying.

I don't believe it's possible to break through to these people. It is indeed infuriating and terrifying.

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